Fredag 28 november 2014

Kinas Statsråd har offentliggjort ett lagförslag som har för avsikt att juridiskt definiera och förebygga våld i nära relationer, men förslaget får kritik för att det endast berör våld mellan gifta makar. Ouyang Yanwen, a professor at the Hunan Police Academy who specializes in domestic violence studies, said the exclusion is at odds with legislation in foreign countries, where de facto, same-sex relationships or former couples are mentioned. Violence in these relationships is as harmful as that among family members, he said. This is why the problem is often referred to as ”intimate violence” instead of ”domestic violence,” Ouyang said. ”A definition of domestic violence cannot be decided only by a marriage certificate because violence between an ex-wife and her ex-husband can exist for a long period of time,” he said.

Totalt greps 116 personer i samband med att polisen gick in för att rensa protestlägret i Mong Kok i Hongkong. Joshua Wong and Lester Shum were among 116 detained in Mong Kok for offences including unlawful assembly and assaulting or obstructing police on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, as a night of clashes – during which police used pepper spray solution – was followed by the removal of barricades from the occupied area on Nathan Road. But protesters flooded into another part of the district as night fell again, prompting fresh scuffles. Police hit out with batons and made several more arrests.

Kinahistorikern och specialisten på studentprotester Jeffrey Wasserstrom delar med sig av sina reflektioner efter att ha varit på plats i Hongkong, hos ockupanterna i protestlägren i Admiralty och Mong Kok. Wasserstroms skarpa iakttagelser ger en bra bild av hr proteströrelsens ”vardag” ser ut och av skillnaderna mellan de två protestlägren. When I finally made it to Mong Kok early on November 8, stopping off en route to Shenzhen, I realized that there were indeed many contrasts between it and Admiralty. The difference is due partly to geography: the encampment is on a regular street rather than a highway, which runs through a mixed residential and small business and shopping district rather than an area dominated by financial headquarters and government buildings /…/ In addition, while there was plenty of artwork to admire in Mong Kok, it felt like a place where the focus was on things other than creativity, where economic issues were equally or even more important in bringing people to the street than electoral and free speech concerns — though in Admiralty, too, the chasm between rich and poor was a concern expressed on many banners.